Touchdown Hills

Touchdown Hills is a group of snow-covered hills extending south from on the east side of the Filchner Ice Shelf. So named by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1957 because one of the expedition members, while piloting a plane fitted with skis, mistook these hills for clouds and hit them, bounding upwards undamaged.
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Latitude
-78.11898° or 78° 7′ 8″ south
Longitude
-35.00041° or 35° 0′ 2″ west
Open location code
29H6VXJX+CR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9255585696
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
6626889
Wiki­data ID
Q7828683

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Touchdown Hills” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Touchdown Hills”
  • Chinese: “塔奇當山”
  • Dutch: “Touchdown Hills”
  • German: “Touchdown Hills”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Touchdown Hills”
  • Swedish: “Touchdown Hills”

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